Adding Content

I have had so many problems trying to add content to this DVD. It hasnt been DVD studio but After Effects. It would not render .mov files properly so they kept skipping and jumping all over the place. I could render them out in .mp4 files but DD studio would not recognise them.

Luckily I have another mac at home that I was able to borrow that also had After Effects CS5 on. This meant i could render the .mp4 files then take it over to the other mac and rerender them as .mov. The problem I had with this is losing quality. The quality would have been majorly different and some of the films were already not a good quality. When I delved a bit deeper into the issue, I realised that the videos were not skipping at all when I simulated them on DVD studio. This meant the original .mov files were fine all along. It turns out that my computer did not have enough processor and memory free to play the files back correctly (it didnt dtop me from rendering them all again just to make sure).

Getting the files into DVD studio was easy and within about an hour, I had all eleven videos on the DVD and playing corectly with buttons linking them all and getting them to play on demand.

One thing I was slightly disappointed about was my Buddy character. All the issues meant I literally have not had any time to finish the model of him. I just need to model his hair and glasses which does not seem much but I wanted to pose him and that would have meant rigging. My aim is to finish him in the summer then use him to learn how to rig thoroughly and correctly.

I have edited so much sound over the past few days. I managed to pick eleven different tracks and take either a breakdown, instrumental or intro within their songs and create background music for my videos. I am definitely not a good music editor but my plan is for the user to concentrate more on the video than on the music.

I am very close to the finish line. I need to adjust a few little bits on the DVD and then test.